After the thrill of seeing Scott Dixon, the 2008 Indy 500 winner, nail a record-breaking four-lap run to take his fifth pole position for the championship's most famous event, it’s time for the main business to begin.
If that sounds like it’s trivializing the efforts of all the teams last week, it isn’t: the thing is, it’s almost as if the battle for pole position is a whole separate event in itself, 1) because the cars are so radically different – minimal downforce and 1.5-bar turbo boost instead of the race day 1.3-bar – and 2) because the 500 itself dwarfs every other race on the schedule, let alone the fight to lead the 11 rows of three to the green flag.
